April certainly has some exciting audiobooks coming up in all genres. No spring would be complete without at least a mitt’s worth of baseball books. At bat this season, we have a unique look at Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson with
42 Faith, a contrarian’s look at statistics in
Smart Baseball, and an adoring homage to everyone’s favorite underdogs (except they’re not anymore), the Chicago Cubs, titled
My Cubs, written by the eminent anchor of NPR’s
Weekend Edition Saturday and lifelong Cubs loyalist, Scott Simon. For offerings in fiction audiobooks,
LaRose by Louise Erdrich, about a tragedy involving two best friends and their families, will touch listeners deeply, and the novel
Those Secrets We Keep, about three very different women who vacation together, only reminds us of that old saying about how easy it is for three people to keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead. Several bestselling novelists are returning, with audiobooks that are sure to please, including: Sara Paretsky in
Fallout, Anne Hillerman with
Song of the Lion, and Mary Higgins Clark, in a kind of locked-door thriller at sea, in
All By Myself, Alone. If there’s a bit too much precipitation this spring, listeners will have plenty of choices with which to while away the raindrops.
